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The Rich Family Foundation The Hearst Foundations, The William Hall Tippett & Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation, Dr. Seuss Fund at The David C. Copley Foundation, The Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Anonymous, Foundation Kay & Bill Gurtin, Lynn Gorguze & The Honorable Scott Peters, Steven Strauss & Lise Wilson Vivien and Jeffrey Ressler Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation, and Molli Wagner

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Brian & Silvija Devine

JUNE 5 - JULY 8

P1 PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS A MESSAGE FROM THE

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Christopher Ashley Debby Buchholz Artistic Director Managing Director No matter where we turn these days, we are confronted by deep and seemingly insurmountable divisions within MISSION STATEMENT: our populace. Class, ethnicity, MISSION STATEMENT: nationality, politics, sexual LaLa Jolla Jolla Playhouse Playhouse advances advances theatre as orientation and gender – every antheatre art form as andan art as forma vital and social, as a moral metric by which we self-identify and political platform by providing vital social, moral and political comes with battle lines already unfettered creative opportunities platform by providing unfettered drawn, turning each conversation into an “us versus them” for the leading artists of today and BY creative opportunities for the shouting match. It is, in other words, a perfect time to unleash tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and leading artists of today and the world premiere of Robert Askins’ The Squirrels. ROBERT ASKINS eclectic, artist-driven approach, we

willtomorrow. continue With to cultivate our youthful a local and Rob’s new comedy explores our instinctual drive towards nationalspirit and following eclectic, with artist-driven an insatiable tribalism through an appealingly warped, absurdist lens. DIRECTED BY appetiteapproach, for weaudacious will continue and diverse to Scurius, a great old Gray Squirrel, resides at the center of work. In the future, San Diego’s La CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY cultivate a local and national the tree. The greatest gatherer of nuts the forest ever saw, Jolla Playhouse will be considered following with an insatiable he turns a blind eye to the starving and disadvantaged Fox singularly indispensable to the appetite for audacious and Squirrels on the outermost branches. But when his devoted worldwide theatre landscape, as we FEATURING diverse work. In the future, daughter Chordata pleads the case of Carolinius – a young become a permanent safe harbor for ‡ San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse Fox Squirrel determined to end nut inequality – it lights a fuse TERENCE ARCHIE*, CANDY BUCKLEY*, SIDNEY HILL , LAKISHA MAY*, BRAD OSCAR*, the unsafe and surprising. The day will ‡ ‡ that will divide a family and ignite a war. comewill be when considered it will be singularly essential to enter MAX SINGER , MARCUS TERRELL SMITH*, SUMMER SPIRO*, DANIELLE E. B. WINEMAN

theindispensable La Jolla Playhouse to the villageworldwide in order Like the squirrel, this play is a fascinating mixture of totheatre get a glimpse landscape, of what as we is becomeabout to playfulness and charm, cunning and deception. As anyone happen in American theatre. SCENIC DESIGNER a permanent safe harbor for the who has seen Hand to God knows, Rob is no stranger to BEOWULF BORITT unsafe and surprising. The day marrying intensely resonant socio-political insights with COSTUME DESIGNER PALOMA YOUNG will come when it will be essential audaciously off-the-wall conceits. In fact, one of his greatest LIGHTING DESIGNER TYLER MICOLEAU to enter the La Jolla Playhouse strengths as a playwright is his ability to challenge our SOUND DESIGNER assumptions – whether they be about faith, good and CRICKET S. MYERS village in order to get a glimpse PROJECTIONS DESIGNER of what is about to happen in evil, capitalism, power, or the roots of our intrinsic societal JOHN NARUN prejudices – in a wholly unexpected and twisted way. American theatre. WIG, HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGNER J. JARED JANAS Though you can see glints of Aristophanes, King Lear and FIGHT DIRECTOR the nightly cable news, The Squirrels is very much its own JAMES NEWCOMB La Jolla Playhouse has received the highest rating from demented animal. CASTING TARA RUBIN CASTING, C.S.A. Charity Navigator, the nation’s premier charity evaluator. DRAMATURG GABRIEL GREENE It is, without question, a scary moment in our history. STAGE MANAGER JOSHUA PILOTE* “Unease, mistrust, fear and anger permeate our society. But bombarded as we are with the notion of “us versus them,” ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER MANDISA REED* The Squirrels asks us to consider what our responsibilities are STAGE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT WILLIE MAE MICHIELS ‡ to each other. PROJECT PRODUCTION MANAGER BECCA DUHAIME La Jolla Playhouse has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator, CHRISTOPHER THE SQUIRRELS WAS DEVELOPED AT THE LARK, NEW YORK CITY the nation’s premier charity evaluator. ASHLEY P2 ” P3 THE THE CAST

TERENCE ARCHIE, Scurius MAX SINGER, Squirrel Ensemble La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Rocky the Musical, La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: The Taming (in alphabetical order) Ragtime. International: Rocky Das Musical (Hamburg). Off of the Shrew(d): A Cautionary Tale, (w)holeness, Eurydice, Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second The Green Cockatoo, Othello, Joshua, The Clitorish. Stage), 1776 (City Center), Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (The Regional: San Diego Repertory Theatre. Staged Readings: Scurius...... Terence Archie Public). Solo shows: The Peanut Prince, Frederick Douglass Wandering Feast, For Honor. TV/Film: Breakable You (dir. Free, At the Pole (Urban Stages). Regional: All the Way, The Twelve Andrew Wagner), J2J (Reel Sense Productions), Redbull “Study Buddy” Mammalia...... Candy Buckley (DCPA); Guys and Dolls, Twelfth Night (Old Globe); Two Gentlemen of (Synthetic Pictures), Olympics “Handheld” (NBC). Education: Stella Adler Verona, Tamburlaine the Great, Edward II (STC); Arabian Nights (Berkeley Studio, M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego. Chordata...... Lakisha May Rep/); The Odyssey ( Rep); The Elaborate Entrance Scientist/Sciuridae...... Brad Oscar of Chad Diety (Geffen). Recent TV credits include Elementary, The MARCUS TERRELL SMITH, Carolinius Mysteries of Laura, Manhattan Love Story and Madam Secretary. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Mr. Smith is absolutely thrilled Carolinius...... Marcus Terrell Smith to be back in theatre, bringing this amazing piece to ...... Summer Spiro CANDY BUCKLEY, Mammalia life. His other credits include: National Tour: The Book of Rodentia appeared in La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere Mormon; Off Broadway: (Mesa Encore Theater); production of Kill Local. Her Broadway credits include: Film/TV: Little Evil (Netflix), Marlon (NBC), Brooklyn Nine- Cabaret, After the Fall, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Nine (Fox), NCIS: (CBS), Grey’s Anatomy (CBS). Education: Squirrel Ensemble...... Sidney Hill, Max Singer, Danielle E. B. Wineman Scandalous, Ring Round the Moon. Off Broadway: The M.F.A. from Actors Studio Drama School; B.A. in Linguistics from Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, Valhalla, Shockheaded Peter, University of Arizona. He would like to thank his family and friends for The Taming of the Shrew, Hal + Bee, The Petrified Prince (Drama Desk their unwavering support! Award nomination). Recent regional: Company (Bucks County), Vanya + Sonia + Masha + Spike (The Old Globe, Huntington, Guthrie). Four years SUMMER SPIRO, Rodentia company member, American Repertory Theater (Hedda Gabler, Lady Ms. Spiro has participated in four DNA New Work Series Macbeth, others); 11 years company member, Theater Center readings at La Jolla Playhouse, including MK-ULTRA, The (The Cherry Orchard, All the King’s Men, others). TV: The Americans, Engine of Our Ruin, Trinity and The Luckiest. National The Squirrels will be performed without an intermission. Blue Bloods, Treme, Law & Order: CI, Gossip Girl. Film: Bachelorette. Tours: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (LA Theatre Works). Regional: Princess Grace Statue Award for Achievement in Theater. Steal Heaven, Detroit (San Diego Rep); The Trouble We Come From (Garry Marshall Theatre); Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); SIDNEY HILL, Squirrel Ensemble As You Like It, Hay Fever (Moonlight); As You Like It (LA Theatre Works). La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego credits include: Feature Films: Swell, Big Legend, If Looks Could Kill, Oceans Rising, Streamers, Baby Teeth, Eurydice, The Green Cockatoo, A Losing in Love. TV: Westworld Season 2. Raisin in the Sun, SERE. Education: B.A. in Acting from University of Illinois, ; M.F.A. Acting candidate, DANIELLE E. B. WINEMAN, Squirrel Ensemble ADDITIONAL STAFF UC San Diego. Originally from Cut Bank, Montana, Ms. Wineman is now an M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego. La Jolla Playhouse: LAKISHA MAY, Chordata Debut. UC San Diego credits: 53% Of, (w)holeness, Assistant Director...... Becky Biegelsen La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off Broadway: Everybody Taming of the Shrew(d), The Green Cockatoo, Othello. Movement Consultant...... Anjanette Maraya-Ramey (Signature Theatre), Sojourners (NYTW, Playwrights Realm). Regional: A Christmas Carol (), A Regional: Two Trains Running (Arden Theatre Company), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks), Rock of Associate Scenic Designer...... Jenna Carino The Mountaintop (Playmakers Repertory Company and Ages and Tarzan (Grandstreet Theatre), Beau Jest and The Liar (Okoboji Associate Projections Designer/Projections Programmer ������������������������������������������������������������� Grant McDonald Triad Stage), In the Red and Brown Water (Marin Theater Summer Theatre). Assistant Costume Designer...... Annie Le Company), Spoon Lake Blues (Alliance Theatre Company), A Christmas Assistant Lighting Designer...... Joel Britt Carol (American Conservatory Theater). Film & TV: Panama Canal Stories, ROBERT ASKINS, Playwright Stage Management Intern...... Kelsey Gagen Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, Forever. Education: M.F.A., is so excited to be making his Playhouse debut. Cypress, Texas-born American Conservatory Theater; B.A., Spelman College. Ms. May also Robert Askins is the author of the Tony-nominated and Obie Award- enjoys creating/producing her own work (short films & web content). winning Broadway hit Hand to God, which enjoyed a run on ’s www.kishamay.com. West End and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. His comedy Fish Display was part of the 2012 Ojai Playwrights Conference, BRAD OSCAR, Scientist/Sciuridae and his play Permission, also developed at OPC, had its world premiere La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Something Rotten! Off Broadway at MCC Theater in Spring 2015. He is the recipient of two Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres * The theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. (Tony Award nomination), Big Fish, Nice Work If You Can EST/Sloan grants, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, and an Get It, The Addams Family, Spamalot, The Producers Arch and Bruce Davis Award for Playwriting. Mr. Askins is a graduate of This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service (Tony Award nomination), Jekyll & Hyde, Aspects of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. SQUIRRELS! organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. Love. National Tour: The Phantom of the Opera, Young This theatre operates under an agreement between La Jolla Playhouse and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 122. All musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians of the Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde. West End: The Producers. Off Broadway: United States and Canada. Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street), Forbidden Broadway, Encores! Annie Get UC San Diego M.F.A. Candidates in residence at La Jolla Playhouse. ‡ Your Gun, Bells Are Ringing and Do Re Mi. Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Barrington Stage); Barnum (Asolo Rep/Maltz Jupiter – Carbonell Award, Best Actor in a Musical); The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cabaret and Damn Yankees (Arena Stage); The First Wives Club (Old Globe). Film: Ghost Town, The Producers. TV: Madam Secretary, Smash, The Good Wife and three Law & Orders. Education: B.F.A. from University.

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CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, Director/Playhouse Artistic Director CRICKET S. MYERS, Sound Designer TARA RUBIN CASTING, Casting JOSHUA PILOTE, Stage Manager has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since October, 2007. La Jolla Playhouse: Guards at the Taj, Sideways, The Nightingale. On La Jolla Playhouse: SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Disney’s La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway/Tours: The Bridges of Madison During his tenure, he has helmed the Playhouse’s acclaimed productions Broadway, Ms. Myers earned a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Freaky Friday, Miss You Like Hell, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Yoshimi County, Other Desert Cities, , Disney’s The Little Mermaid, of Hollywood, The Darrell Hammond Project, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Desk Award for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Off Battles the Pink Robots, Sideways, Most Wanted, , The Farnsworth RENT, Mamma Mia!, Dirty Dancing, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Glen Ross, A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Broadway designs include The Marvelous Wonderettes. She has also Invention, Palm Beach, Zhivago, Jersey Boys. Selected Broadway: Miss Off-Broadway: Angels in America (Signature), Forbidden Broadway, Restoration and the musicals Escape to Margaritaville, Disney’s Freaky designed regionally at The Geffen Playhouse, The Ahmanson, The Saigon, Falsettos, A Bronx Tale, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Disaster!, School Frankenstein, I Love You… Now Change!, Little Me (City Center Encores!), Friday, Chasing the Song, Xanadu, , which won four 2010 Tony Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, The of Rock, Doctor Zhivago, It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Bullets Over Broadway, Other: Blue Man Group, Shakespeare in the Park (Public Theater), Awards including Best Musical, and , for which he won Kirk Douglas Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse. She has earned 20 Aladdin, Les Misérables, Mothers and Sons, Big Fish, The Heiress, How to Roundabout. Regional: Stagger Lee, Colossal (Dallas Theater Center); the 2017 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical. He also spearheaded Ovation nominations, as well as winning The Ruth Marley Award from Succeed..., , Billy Elliot, Shrek, Guys and Dolls, Young (T.U.T.S.); American Players Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare the Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) series and the Resident Theatre the League of Professional Theater Women, The Kinetic Award for Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, … Spelling Festival, Ogunquit Playhouse. Thanks to Mandisa, Willie & Kelsey! program. Prior to joining the Playhouse, he directed the Broadway Outstanding Achievements in Theatrical Design, an LADCC Award and a Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Education: B.A. from The College of Idaho. Proud AEA Member. Follow productions of Xanadu (Drama Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The Garland Award. www.cricketsmyers.com Opera. Off Broadway: ; Old Jews Telling Jokes; Love, Loss, his adventures on Instagram: co_pilote Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award and What I Wore. Regional: , Paper Mill Playhouse, nominations), as well as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration JOHN NARUN, Projections Designer Bucks County Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, The Old Globe. MANDISA REED, Assistant Stage Manager productions of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New La Jolla Playhouse: Blueprints to Freedom, Tallest Tree in the Forest, La Jolla Playhouse: The Cake, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel The Darrell Hammond Project. Off Broadway: The Laramie Project Cycle GABRIEL GREENE, Dramaturg (SM PA), Wild Goose Dreams, At the Old Place, The Bitter Game, Tiger and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets (BAM); What I Did Last Summer (Signature Theatre); The Secret Life joined La Jolla Playhouse’s artistic staff in 2007 and currently serves as their Style! (PA). Regional: Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe; Tour PA), The Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The of Edward Gorey (The Sheen Center); Master (The Foundry Theatre). Director of New Play Development. In addition to curating and producing Comedy of Errors (The Old Globe, SM Intern). Opera: The Bartered Bride Night Hank Williams Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), Regional: Welcome to Fear City (Kansas City Rep); Born for This (Arena the annual DNA New Work Series, he has dramaturged over two dozen and Second Nature (Music Academy of the West). Education: M.F.A. in among others. Mr. Ashley also directed the feature films Jeffrey and Stage); Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). Other credits: The Radio City new plays and musicals for the Playhouse, including Wild Goose Dreams, Stage Management from UC San Diego; B.A. in Theatre Technology Lucky Stiff, as well as the American Playhouse production of Blown Spring Spectacular, Cirque Du Soleil’s The Immortal Tour (video content). At the Old Place, Escape to Margaritaville, Miss You Like Hell, JUNK, The from Dillard University. Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Concerts: Ricky Martin’s All In Vegas Show, ’s Sticky and Sweet Last Tiger in Haiti, Blueprints to Freedom, Up Here, The Darrell Hammond Grace Award, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Tour, The Spice Girls’ Reunion Tour, Celine Dion’s Taking Chances Tour, Project, Milk Like Sugar (also Off-Broadway; Obie Award) and Memphis WILLIE MAE MICHIELS, Stage Management Assistant Director Fellowship. ’ The Femme Fatale Tour, Ricky Martin’s The Black and (also Broadway and London; four ). Goosebumps Alive, his La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Other regional credits include: Robin Hood!, White Tour, Christina Aguilera’s Back to Basics Tour. Broadcast: NBC immersive adaptation of R.L. Stine’s best-selling novels (co-written and Rain (The Old Globe); Paloma (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Two BEOWULF BORITT, Set Designer Beijing Summer Olympics Teaser Campaign; CBS’s Wolf Lake Main Title directed by Tom Salamon) recently premiered at The Vaults (London). Gentleman of Verona (Shakespeare Center LA). Ms. Michiels has also La Jolla Playhouse: Come From Away, Freaky Friday. Broadway: Act One (Emmy nomination); HBO Genre Opens (2002); The Oprah Winfrey Show With Alex Levy, he co-wrote Safe at Home, which was developed as part supervised Halloween Horror Nights maze productions at Universal (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), Thérèse Raquin Main Title (1999). Awards: 2017 Drama Desk nomination, 2002 Emmy of the 2016 DNA Series and received its world premiere at Mixed Blood Studios Hollywood and Deck Managed for Oregon Shakespeare Festival. (Tony nomination), Come From Away, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, nomination for Outstanding Title Design, 2015 Henry Hewes Design Theatre in 2017 (Ivey Award). B.A.: University of Michigan. M.Phil: Trinity Education: M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego. Prince of Broadway, Sunday in the Park with George, Hand to God, On Award nomination, 2013 and 2015 Craig Noel Award nominations, two College, . B.F.F.: Mia Fiorella. gabrielgreene.com. the Town, , …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock of 2016 NYIT Award nominations; Education: Northwestern University, Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two and Only. Off Broadway: Theatrical Design and Radio, TV, Film. www.johnnarun.com 100 shows including The Last Five Years, Sleepwalk with Me and Miss Julie. He has designed for the NYC Ballet and the Ringling Brothers and J. JARED JANAS, Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer PLAYHOUSE LEADERSHIP Barnum & Bailey Circus, and around the world in England, Russia, China, La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Boulevard, Bandstand, Australia and Japan. 2007 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. , The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY, Artistic Director DEBBY BUCHHOLZ, Managing Director Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, All Please see Mr. Ashley’s bio on page 6. joined the Playhouse in 2002, serving first as General About Me, Next to Normal. Recent Off Broadway & Regional: Jagged PALOMA YOUNG, Costume Designer Manager before becoming Managing Director. She is a Vice Little Pill (ART); Miss You Like Hell, The Low Road (Public Theater); The La Jolla Playhouse: Peter and the Starcatchers. Broadway: Peter and the President of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and Amateurs (Vineyard Theatre); Jerry Springer the Opera (New Group); Starcatcher (Tony Award); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 a member of its Executive Committee. She is a recipient Yours Unfaithfully (Mint Theatre; Drama Desk Award nomination). Film/TV: (Tony nomination); Bandstand (Drama Desk Award nomination); Time of a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from Angelica, The Night Before, Six by Sondheim, Scream Queens, Gotham, and the Conways; Lobby Hero. Off Broadway: Natasha, Pierre…; Kazino The San Diego Business Journal. Prior to joining La Jolla Playhouse, she Mozart in the Jungle, Inside Amy Schumer. (Lucille Lortel Award); Fly By Night (Playwrights Horizons); Recall (Colt served as Counsel to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Coeur); Permission (MCC); Brooklyn Babylon (BAM). Other regional Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She JAMES NEWCOMB, Fight Director work at American Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, South Coast was a faculty member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal La Jolla Playhouse: Loot, Sweet Bird of Youth, Jane Eyre. Elsewhere: Repertory, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, DES McANUFF, Director Emeritus Problems of Museum Administration. Prior to The Kennedy Center, Moby-Dick, Lohengrin, Don Giovanni, Conquistador (San Diego Opera); Hand2Mouth and Mixed Blood, among others. Education: M.F.A. from served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 she served as a corporate attorney in New York City and Washington, The Illusion, Water and Power, The Seafarer (San Diego Repertory UC San Diego. palomayoung.com, IG: SecondPigeon. through 1994, and from 2001 through April 2007. Under D.C. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Theatre); Resident Fight Director 1990-1996 at Oregon Shakespeare his leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 Buchholz and her husband, noted author and White House economic Festival; Idaho Shakes, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, South Coast Rep, Denver TYLER MICOLEAU, Lighting Designer awards, including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional policy advisor Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud Center Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Chicago Shakespeare La Jolla Playhouse: Miss You Like Hell. Broadway: The Band’s Visit (Tony Theatre. His Playhouse to Broadway credits include: parents of Victoria, Katherine and Alexia. Award nomination). Recent Off Broadway: Peace for Mary Frances (New Theatre. Instructor for N.T.C. and UC San Diego Graduate Theatre SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical; Doctor Zhivago; Jesus Christ Program (19 years). Training: B.H. Berry, J. Steven White. As an actor: Group); Miss You Like Hell (Public Theater); A Midsummer Night’s Dream Superstar; Jersey Boys (four Tony Awards); ’s 700 Sundays JAIME CASTAÑEDA, Associate Artistic Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival (14 seasons), Denver Center Theatre (9 (Public, Central Park); The Antipodes (Signature); The Effect (Barrow Street). (Tony Award); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five joined the Playhouse in 2014 as the Associate Artistic seasons), , Chicago Shakespeare, The Old Globe, San Other notable Off Broadway: Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons; Tony nominations); director and co-author with on The Director, where he has directed At the Old Place by Rachel Diego Rep, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Public, BAM. Drama Desk nomination); Blasted (Soho Rep; Hewes Award); Bug (Barrow Who’s Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and Big River Bonds, Tiger Style! by Mike Lew and Guards at the Taj Street; Lucille Lortel and OBIE Awards). Regional: Arena, Huntington, Alley, (seven Tony Awards), among others. He also directed the premieres of by Rajiv Joseph. He has directed productions for Dallas Goodman, ART, Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf, among Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Theater Center, Atlantic Theater Company, others. 2010 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Robots, which he co-wrote. Opera credits: Faust (The Met, ENO). Film Play House, The Old Globe, Perseverance Theatre, Kitchen Dog and credits: Cousin Bette (director), Iron Giant (producer, BAFTA Award) American Theater Company. He has also developed new plays with and Quills (executive producer). Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 the O’Neill, Rattlestick Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center Julia Hansen Award, Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Theater, The Kennedy Center and the Atlantic Theater Company, where Stratford Festival from 2007 through 2012. In 2012, he was awarded he spent five seasons as Artistic Associate. He is a Drama League Canada’s esteemed Governor General’s National Arts Center Award and fellow and has received the Princess Grace Award and the TCG New the Order of Canada. Generations Grant. M.F.A. in Directing from University of Texas at Austin.

P6 P7 THE SQUIRRELS T EVENTS: TUESDAYS AUDIENCE ENGAGEMEN TALKBACK actors and The Squirrels EVENTS Sponsored in part by INSIDER Participate in a lively discussion with Sponsored in part by Playhouse staff members immediately following these The 2016 DNA New Work Series reading of Child of Colonialism performances. after the 7:30 pm performance Join Playhouse staff for a special The Squirrels. pre-performance presentation that Tuesda, Jue after the 7:30 pm performance Artist and Theatre Residencies at at 6:45 pm gives an insider’s view of Tuesda, Jue Mike Lew and Rehana Lew Mirza La Jolla Playhouse Wedesda, Jue 7at 1:15 pm Saturda, Jue 3 La Jolla Playhouse is proud of its ongoing relationships with Previous Resident Theatre appointees include Mo’olelo artists from all fields – playwrights, directors, designers and Performing Arts Company, Moxie Theatre, San Diego Asian actors – who continue to call the Playhouse their artistic home. American Repertory Theater, Circle Circle Dot Dot, Eveoke The Playhouse fosters and deepens these relationships by Dance Theatre, Teatro Máscara Mágica and Native Voices. offering on-site residencies to individual artists, as well as to local theatre companies, through the Artist-in-Residence and While in residence, Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company Resident Theatre programs. will present the San Diego premiere of Smokefall by Noah Haidle, to run August 23 – September 16, 2018 in the The Playhouse recently named its 2018 Artists-in-Residence: Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre. Change is in the air as married playwrights Mike Lew (Tiger Style!) and Rehana Lew Violet prepares to bring twin boys into the world. Inside her Mirza (DNA New Work Series reading of Child of Colonialism). womb, her unborn sons contemplate their future, while the SUNDAY This multi-month residency program is designed to give artists world around her is in transformation: her husband is secretly the freedom to focus on their ongoing body of work, while planning to leave her, her father is slipping into senility and her DISCOVERY becoming fully immersed in all aspects of the institution, from daughter has taken a vow of silence. Haunting and slyly funny, the stage to the boardroom to the classroom. Smokefall explores the lives of this family in a lyrical treatise on Join special guest speakers post-performance as they the fragility of life and the power of love. During their residency, Lew and Mirza plan to continue work engage audience members in a moderated discussion PERFORMANCES exploring the themes in this world-premiere play. on their Playhouse-commissioned trilogy: The Colonialism Founded in 2015 in San Diego, California, Backyard ACCESS Project, an ambitious, time-spanning trilogy about colonialism Renaissance believes that exceptional storytelling is rooted in after the 2:00 pm performance and its aftermath, as well as a new musical, Bhangin’ It, about a sense of joyful play, human connection and gutsy intensity. On select performances, La Jolla Playhouse provides Suda, Jul the high-stakes world of intercollegiate bhangra – a traditional Visit backyardrenaissance.com American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for audience Indian folk dance morphed into a good ole American dance-off members who are deaf or hard of hearingat and 2:00 audio pm – and what happens when a biracial student gets kicked off her bhangra team for not being “Indian enough.” description for patronsSaturda, who are blind Jue or have3 low vision. Previous Artists-in-Residence have included Tony Award- winning actor and writer BD Wong (Herringbone, The Orphan of Zhao, playwright/director for POP Tour production of Alice Chan), acclaimed scenic designer and UC San Diego graduate and current faculty member Robert Brill (Playhouse’s SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, The Wiz and many others) and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Basil Twist (WOW Festival productions of Seafoam Sleepwalk and Faetopia).

The Playhouse also recently announced its 2018 Resident Theatre: Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company. Spearheaded by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley, For more information, please visit the Resident Theatre Program aims to encourage the artistic LaJollaPlaouse.or development of performing arts organizations, while advancing and contributing to the San Diego theatre scene as a whole. P8 P9 GG: Many of your plays are set in your home GG: And [costume designer] Paloma Young state of Texas. Is this the first play of yours to had to deal with a big challenge: how do PRESUMABLY imagine a more abstracted setting? you create costumes that inform both the “squirreliness” and “humanness” of these INNOCUOUS RA: I have a bad habit of going to strange places. characters? One of my plays is a dystopian western set in a comic book-adjacent world. I also wrote a three- RA: In American culture, the province of ANIMALS play cycle about the astronomers who took us anthropomorphized animals is almost exclusively from a geocentric to heliocentric universe. The Disney, or cartoons. Paloma does a brilliant job A conversation between playwright Robert Askins and first play was called The Rotting of Tycho de of nodding to that, but also saying, “No no no Brahe. He was easily one of the most fascinating no, don’t get too safe.” That’s a fun thing to play Director of New Play Development Gabriel Greene figures in the time when science was emerging with: watching these presumably innocuous out of alchemy. It included golems and a vengeful animals behaving as they would in the wild, not dwarf, all of which is semi-historical. It was so necessarily how they would on “Chip ‘n Dale: much fun to write. Rescue Rangers.” You don’t want it to feel like Disney, you want it to feel threatening. GG: What was the impetus for writing The and supplicants – those in power, and those When you’re writing about a real place, there’s Squirrels? petitioning them. That’s really interesting to me. a given. Lights up: you know where you are, you GG: There is a really fascinating balance RA: I’m just super fascinated by squirrels. Their A lot of the time when I’m writing, I go from know what’s happening. The challenge of an epic, between the cuteness factor of squirrels behaviors are instantly mysterious. They’re so moment of pleasure to moment of pleasure. or mock epic, is to create the vocabulary, to work and some more threatening aspects to their about their business. They work like a Hollywood We’ve got this chess board here, we’ve got the in a genre that’s not seated in the real world. So behavior. They’re amazingly complex animals. executive. They don’t sleep; they spend all their pieces. If you set up the game properly, you can we get to create it as if it were new, which is the Sometimes they might adopt an orphan time saving. Then they forget where half of the almost taste how delicious a plot point will be in only thing I want to do. squirrel into their own drey, and sometimes nuts are. What is it like to be inside of a body that the theatre. they might eat their own offspring. They lives like that? GG: And a large part of creating that might share their food with others, or they GG: There’s a rich history of playwrights using vocabulary comes in collaboration with the might pretend to bury a nut in a certain place The notion of an animal that will forage and animals as an allegorical lens through which to other members of the creative team. in order to throw off other squirrels. bury more food than they need is wild. I look at tell their story. Were you inspired by some of RA: Absolutely. The blessing of working with RA: Absolutely. The notion of squirrels practicing that and I see their panic. I see their – for lack of their works? a better word – “nut-lust.” That’s such a great Christopher Ashley is his incredible sense of taste deception – I mean, what are we if not liars? tragic flaw. RA: Oh, absolutely. It all comes back to Cats. and nature as a collaborator. A play like this, that “Theory of Mind” is the idea that we come to (singing) “Memory…All alone in the moonlight…” is so performance-dependent, the rehearsal learn at an early age that other people in the process is sheer trial and error. But when you room don’t know everything we do, which is what GG: Once you’d decided squirrels were the (laughs) I’m up for anything to destabilize the have actors with so much talent, a director with allows for deception. Not all animals have this; subject, how did you arrive at the story? audience’s experience, anything to make the story new again. When you make the language strange, so much talent, and a design team that just will in fact, most don’t. It’s a higher-order thought RA: I’m sort of an outside-in playwright. I’m and filter it through the experience or mannerisms not stop, then the room comes alive with the which allows them to say, “Oh, if I behave in interested in structure and theatrical history. My of an animal, you reawaken the surprise and joy sense of play. certain ways, then this thing over here will assume first mentor was a man named Curt Dempster that’s essential for comedy, and that I think should a different behavior has occurred than has [one of the founders of Ensemble Studio Theatre]. be essential for theatre. I designed sets for a while in college and I come actually occurred.” We as humans are very full of Curt had this ancient book called The Thirty- from a visual arts background, so I’m interested in ourselves; we think we hold honesty as a cardinal Six Dramatic Situations. A French neo-classicist things that are interesting to design. It makes me virtue, but in fact lies are one of our defining sins. named Georges Polti had broken down what happy when the designers are excited to design he thought were all the arrangements of plot. something. [Set designer] Beowulf [Boritt], aside I couldn’t make it through a lot of it, ‘cause it’s from having a name out of lore, is a genius. He has drier than white bread without butter, but one of such sensitivity to tone and space, and he does it the dramatic situations was between a potentate all while being the most amazing human being.

P10 P11 SPOTLIGHT ON: SUMMER 2018 SERIES FOR ADULTS THEATRE It’s Your Time to Shine.

YoungPROGRAMS Performers at La Jolla Playhouse You've been asking for 'em, which is why we're so excited to share news about our upcoming Education Series for Adults! La Jolla Playhouse pros will help you (re)ignite your creative spark while also giving you an opportunity to interact with fellow arts and theatre lovers. Register now at LaJollaPlayhouse.org

Intro to Intro to ACTING Mondays, June 25 - Aug 13, 7:00 – 9:00 pm and Wednesdays, June 27 - Aug 22, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Tuesdays, June 26 - Aug 14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm (8 classes) (8 classes) Whether you are an aspiring actor or wish to Experience the fun of musical theatre through its revitalize your creativity, this course will explore many disciplines using song interpretation, basic drama techniques and character development to choreographic combinations and vocal technique to expand monologue and scene performance. A have a working knowledge of the popular genre. A presentation at the end of the session will be open to presentation at the end of the session will be open family and friends. Includes a voucher good for two to family and friends. Includes a voucher good for tickets to see the West Coast premiere of Queens. two tickets to see the San Diego premiere of the No class on July 4. theatrical concert, Hundred Days. Before June 8: $225 LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS Before June 8: $225 After June 8: $250 After June 8: $250 Lead Supporters: The Hearst Foundations | The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation | Qualcomm Foundation Arts Academy pairs a classroom teacher with a InterACTion allows Playhouse artist instructors YP@LJP – Young Performers at La Jolla Playhouse artist instructor. Through collaboration, to work in partnership with City of San Diego Playhouse offers exciting summer programs they work together to incorporate advanced theatre Police Department’s STAR/PAL Program to create for kids: Young Performers’ Workshop (YPW), Intro to IMPROV ShowTalk Saturdays activities and exercises into existing curriculum. interactive lessons that teach adolescents the an exploration of theatre arts in a fun, creative Tuesdays, June 26 - Aug 14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm June 30 - Aug 18, 10:00 – 11:30 am importance of self-respect, community and the law. way; Young Performers’ Academy (YPA), where (8 classes) (8 classes) Girl Scouts Empowerment Theatre is a students build upon the skills they learned in YPW; collaboration between Girl Scouts San Diego and Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour Young Performers’ Conservatory (YPC), a 5-week This class is for the deeply curious theatre lover who Classes build upon one another, allowing novice La Jolla Playhouse. This program prepares young Each year, the Playhouse commissions a new intensive that prepares actors for serious college improvisers to grow and be challenged at a wants to take a behind-the-scenes look at two world women, through the acquisition and application of play that addresses real concerns of today’s youth theatre programs; and Tech Theatre, a class which comfortable rate. Learn to feel relaxed on stage premieres this season: The Squirrels directed by theatre skills, to confidently tackle challenges and and brings a professional production to schools introduces young people to the various aspects of while you gain confidence in “Yes, and”! You will Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and opportunities faced in life as empowered leaders. and community centers across San Diego County. technical theatre. Supported by the Sidney E. Frank amaze yourself with your newfound skills at the last Queens written by recently announced Pulitzer Prize This program is made possible through funding School performances are integrated into the Foundation, the Jordan Ressler Endowment Fund, class performance in front of your friends and family! winner . Includes guest speakers, from the Favrot Fund. classroom curriculum through pre-show visits by David C. Copley Foundation and the Roberto Playhouse artist instructors. Quiñones, Jr. Scholarship Fund. tours, plus delicious coffee and muffin moments! Includes a voucher good for two tickets to see the In-School Residencies – In partnership with world premiere of the twisted comedy, The Squirrels. Before June 8: $150 San Diego County and City Visual and Performing Student Matinees – Special student matinees Before June 8: $225 After June 8: $175 Arts Departments, Playhouse artist instructors of selected mainstage productions are offered For more information on Education & Outreach After June 8: $250 teach theatre skills in classrooms across the throughout the school year. Study guides, pre- county, ensuring theatre becomes an integral part performance and staff development workshops programs at La Jolla Playhouse, please contact of the education of all San Diego children while and post-show talkbacks are available to prepare Steve McCormick at (858) 550-1070 x102. fostering a relationship with the Playhouse that students for these productions. For more information, please email [email protected]. will continue as they grow into adulthood.

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ACCESSIBILITY CONCESSIONS AND RESTAURANT PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby or courtyard of each theatre. A volunteer is available to distribute assisted listening devices and La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible James’ Place provides bar and concessions at answer questions. seating and parking. Wheelchair seat locations each theatre lobby or courtyard. The restaurant are available for wheelchair users and a (James’ Place) is open Tuesday – Friday 4:00 PHOTOGRAPHY/RECORDING DEVICES companion at all performances; be sure to advise pm until 8:30 pm and Saturday – Sunday 3:00 Photography and video or audio recording of the reservationist that you require a wheelchair pm until 9:00 pm. Please call (858) 638-7778 for performances is strictly prohibited. location. Additionally, a golf cart is available to reservations or visit jamesplacesd.com. assist patrons with accessibility needs to and PLEASE SILENCE or turn off all electronic devices, from the parking lot. Please notify Patron Services LATE SEATING including cell phones and watches, before the prior to your performance if you are in need of Should you arrive late for any performance or performance. this service; additionally, you may pull into the need to leave your seat during the performance, ten minute parking area, and a La Jolla Playhouse you may be asked to wait in the lobby until an SAFETY IN THE THEATRE DISTRICT greeter will assist you. The Playhouse also appropriate moment. To minimize any disturbance La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with UC provides assisted listening devices for patrons to actors or other patrons, you may stand or be San Diego Police Department and Transportation who are hard of hearing. Devices are available, seated in the first available location by House and Parking Services to maintain a safe and secure free of charge, at the Patron Services desk prior to Management even if not your assigned location. environment in the parking lots. Patrons are welcome performances (subject to availability). Please be advised that some performances to use the UC San Diego escort service by contacting Listening Devices Provided in Part by may not allow for late seating or return to your UC San Diego Community Service Officers (CSOs) at assigned seat. (858) 534-9255 (WALK). Further questions regarding security, please contact UC San Diego Police at (858) CHILDREN under the age of 6 are not permitted PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the 534-4357 (HELP). in the theatre during performances unless general public on weekdays (free on weekends). otherwise posted. Unaccompanied minors ages Upon arrival to campus, please enter your parking THEATRE TOURS 12 and under are not permitted in the theatre. Out space number and pay the automated pay stations Tour the stages and production shops of the of respect for fellow audience members and the located in the parking lot. Spaces that are not Playhouse facilities and learn more about the history performers, babes in arms are not permitted in the paid for are subject to citations by UC San Diego of La Jolla Playhouse and the role that it plays in the theatre during performances. Parking Enforcement. community. Contact (858) 550-1070 x101.

A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kim Rubinstein Photo by Jim Carmody

The Department of Theatre & Dance MFA program at UC San Diego consistently ranks in the top 10 MFA programs in the world, and top 5 in the country.

Through our partnership with La Jolla Playhouse, current MFA candidates receive professional residencies on La Jolla Playhouse productions.

Tony winner and MFA alumna Paloma Young is Costume Designer on The Squirrels, and current MFA Acting students Sidney Hill, Danielle E. B. Wineman, and Max Singer, as well as MFA Stage Management student Willie Mae Michiels, have their residencies on this production.

For information: THEATRE.UCSD.EDU • 858.822.3152

P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MANAGING DIRECTOR LYNELLE LYNCH Andrew Rasdal Chair Jeffrey Ressler* Becky Robbins Dear Friends, RANDALL L. CLARK, SDG&E Don Rosenberg, Qualcomm First Vice-Chair Tim Scott What an honor it is to welcome you to a new season at La Jolla MICHAEL FLASTER Karen Silberman Second Vice-Chair Tina Simner Playhouse in my new role as Managing Director. DAVE BIALIS Laura Spielman Treasurer Scott M. Stanton, Morrison & Foerster, LLP As many of you know, I’ve served as the Playhouse’s General Manager SUSAN TOUSI, Illumina Steven M. Strauss*, Cooley, LLP Secretary Andy Thomas, for the last 16 years, and during that time I’ve had the pleasure and The Lodge at Torrey Pines Mary Walshok, Ph.D., privilege of immersing myself in the daily life of the Playhouse and TRUSTEES UC San Diego Extension witnessing first-hand the incredible dedication of the artists, staff, Board Michael Bartell Sharon Weremiuk** Gregg Brandalise** Charlayne Woodard and volunteers of this esteemed theatre. I have also enjoyed working Ralph Bryan* HONORARY TRUSTEES Robert Caplan, side by side with the staff and faculty at UC San Diego, my alma mater, and I’m excited to continue Richard Atkinson, Ph.D. Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek Ivan Gayler fostering our unique partnership on this beautiful campus. Lisa S. Casey Linda Chester Ewart W. Goodwin, Jr.* Peter Cowhey, Ph.D., Joel Holliday* I have always been passionate and proud of the Playhouse’s work – from world premieres to Broadway UC San Diego Julie Potiker Doug Dawson transfers to our Without Walls (WOW) and education programs that take place throughout San Diego. Geri Ann Warnke* Edward A. Dennis, Ph.D. Gary Wollberg* I now look forward to collaborating even more closely with Christopher Ashley, the Board of Trustees, Brian Dovey, Domain Associates Robert Wright, Esq. Emily Einhorn our talented staff and with you, our devoted patrons and donors, to build on the Playhouse’s nationally- Teri Evons EMERITUS TRUSTEES recognized legacy of developing and producing adventurous and compelling theatre. Mick Farrell Rita Bronowski (1917-2010) Dr. Lawrence Friedman David Copley (1952-2012) Noel Gillespie, Procopio Ted Cranston (1940-2012) I'm also eager to meet all of you throughout the season. Don't hesitate to stop me in the lobby, on the Hanna Gleiberman Milton Fredman (1920-2005) Jeffrey Goldman Marian Jones Longstreth Plaza or at James’ Place to say hello. I welcome your feedback. Lynn E. Gorguze (1906-1997) Kay Gurtin, Hughes Potiker (1925-2005) Gurtin Municipal Bond Management Sheila Potiker (1930-2011) Thank you so much for your ongoing support of the new work on our stages and for welcoming me into Clark Guy, US Trust Bank of America Ellen Revelle (1910-2009) Dwight Hare Roger Revelle (1909-1991) this new role with such open arms. Osborn Hurston, US Bank Willard P. VanderLaan, M.D.* Debby Jacobs (1917-2012) Top row: Lynelle & William Lynch; Joan & Irwin Jacobs with Debby Jacobs. Joan Jacobs Arthur Wagner, Ph.D. Middle Row: Silvija & Brian Devine with Cléa & Scott Stanton; Michael Flaster, Managing Director Debby Buchholz, Randall L. Clark. Bottom Row: Osborn & Dea Hurston; Margret & Nevins McBride with Barbara & Howard Milstein. Sheri L. Jamieson (1923-2015) DEBBY Jeanne Jones Mandell Weiss (1891-1993) Pradeep K. Khosla, Ph.D., 1947 FOUNDERS BUCHHOLZ Chancellor, UC San Diego Mel Ferrer Kay Matherly, Wells Fargo Dorothy McGuire Margret McBride* A MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR Mark J. Muñoz, Dowling & Yahnke, LLC *Past Chair of the Board Bennett Peji** **Ex-Officio Welcome to tonight’s performance and the launch of La Jolla Playhouse’s Karen A. Quiñones 2018/2019 Season! List as of May 21, 2018

This past March, the Playhouse held its annual Gala, chaired once again by Debby Jacobs, which raised more than $1 million to support the theatre’s outstanding Education & Outreach and New Play Development programs. These funds make new work possible at the Playhouse – including tonight’s world premiere of The Squirrels, directed by our own Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Christopher Ashley – as well as such signature programs as Page To Stage, the DNA New Work Series, Without Walls, the Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour, and many other initiatives that make La Jolla Playhouse the place to see what’s next on the American theatre landscape.

James’ Place is the Theatre District’s on-site restaurant. Developed It is also my pleasure to usher in a new era of leadership at the Playhouse with the recent appointment of Debby Buchholz as Managing by Sushi Master James Holder, the menu features his signature Director. Debby’s integrity and visionary leadership in the field are unmatched, and her deep institutional knowledge as the Playhouse’s sushi, delectable dishes created with Prime and Angus cuts of General Manager for the last 16 years, along with her passionate support for our artistic mission, make her the ideal partner to lead the beef, locally and sustainably harvested seafood and other seasonal institution with Christopher. dishes. Lighter fare is served at the newly-redesigned sushi/cocktail bar, which also offers craft beer and California wines. On behalf of my fellow trustees, thank you for joining us for another amazing Playhouse season and for supporting new work on our stages. Please call (858) 638-7778 for reservations. Visit JamesPlaceSD.com for more information. LYNELLE LYNCH CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES P16 P17 THE SQUIRRELS PRODUCTION SPONSORS LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE CORPORATE CIRCLE

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Brian & Silvija Devine Supporting the performing arts has been our lifelong endeavor, and we are very pleased to partner with La Jolla Playhouse on this world-premiere play. We deeply admire Christopher Ashley’s approach to producing theatre. SHOW IMAGING INC Time after time he partners with artists who have their finger on the pulse of important conversations. Therefore, it was no surprise to us that he’s $25,000 + launching this season with a brand new play by Robert Askins (Hand to God), a Tony-nominated playwright who has developed a national following for his witty and unique response to today’s most urgent questions.

Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek is proud of our long-term support of La Jolla Playhouse. As a locally-based law firm, we share the Playhouse’s commitment to the San Diego community and appreciate the creative opportunities it $15,000 + provides to the leading artists of today and tomorrow.

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$100,000 + $50,000 - $99,999 $5,000 - $9,999 John and Marcia Price Family Foundation David C. Copley Foundation $2,500 + Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust Price Philanthropies Foundation Araca Productions • Carson Royston Group LLC • Employees Community Fund of Boeing California • ICM Partners • Jackson Design & Remodeling $25,000 - $49,999 $1,000 - $4,999 La Jolla Institute • Marsh & McLennan • Nordson Corporation Foundation • Perkins Coie • Seacrest Village Retirement Communities The City of Encinitas & Mizel Family Foundation Panta Rhea Foundation Silicon Valley Bank • The Scripps Research Institute • TEGA Therapeutics • UC San Diego Extension • Wawanesa Insurance • Wolfenzon Rolle Las Patronas Community Grant Program The Sutherland Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts IN-KIND AND MEDIA CIRCLE Walter J. & Betty C. Zable Foundation The Samuel I. & John Henry Fox Foundation The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation City of Chula Vista, Performing and Visual Arts Grant The Arthur and Jeanette Pratt Memorial Fund The Dillon Fund La Jolla Kiwanis Foundation $10,000 - $24,999 Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation San Diego Scottish Rite Community Foundation $300 - $999 California Arts Council Rising Arts Leaders San Diego Lynne & Mason Rosenthal; Leo S. Guthman Fund The Coastal Community Foundation and the 3rd grade Farrell Family Foundation class of Solana Vista Elementary School Edgerton Foundation Sidney E. Frank Foundation Bella Vista Social Club & Caffé • HATCH – San Diego Magazine • Jazz 88 • KPBS • Modern Luxury • San Diego Business Journal • The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint The Hearst Foundations The County of San Diego Susan and Larry Favrot and the Favrot Fund CORPORATE MATCHING COMPANIES The William Hall Tippett and The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Amazon Smile • AstraZeneca United States • Bank of America • Caterpillar • Goodrich • Google • Hewlett-Packard • IBM International • Intuit • Medtronic Foundation Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation List as of May 21, 2018 Pfizer • Qualcomm Incorporated • Sempra Energy • Texas Instruments • Union Bank • U.S. Bank • The Walt Disney Company Foundation • Wells Fargo

Opportunities for corporations to partner with La Jolla Playhouse are numerous and varied, each providing exclusive benefits and recognition. For information, please contact Bonnie Broberg, Associate Director of Development, Individual & Corporate Giving, at (858) 550-1070 x141. List as of May 21, 2018 P18 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P19 LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: ANNUAL SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: ANNUAL SUPPORT FROM INDIVIDUALS

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Join the Playhouse in serving those who serve us all.

We are proud to support our local military by offering free tickets to the military and their families for every Playhouse production. We will also host three Military Date Nights which include free tickets to a production, along with a pre-show experience with hosted food, beverages and live music. These events provide an opportunity for families to make up for so many lost evenings while the service members are JUNE , 8 Hnrar Cair serving our country. rer T. Lier Cairan an CEO 2018/2019 Season Military Date Nights: NVaive, In. October 12: Hundred Days December 7: The Year to Come THANK YOU FOR MAKIN PRESENTING SPONSOR February 22, 2019: Diana INNOVATION NIHT 1 Please consider making a donation of $50 or more to help underwrite tickets to one of our Military Date Nights. Your gift will provide a service member with an exciting evening of A SUCCESS INNOVATION GALLERY SPONSOR theatre, while enhancing their connection to San Diego.

To make a donation or to learn more about our military outreach programs, contact Samantha INNOVATION NIGHT CHAIRS LEAD SPONSORS Wilson, Individual Giving Manager, at [email protected] or (858) 228-3089. Honorary Chair: Gregory T. Lucier, Chairman & CEO, NuVasive, Inc.

Founder CoChair: Dr. Ivor Royston, Viracta Therapeutics

CoChairs: HOST SPONSORS Randall L. Clark, SDG&E Join the Party! Brian Dovey, Domain Associates Michael “Mick” Farrell, ResMed Mingle with the cast and creative teams on Opening ay Gurtin, Gurtin Municipal Bond Management Clark Guy, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management CO-HOST SPONSORS Night of every main stage production during the season! Joe Panetta, Biocom By making a tax-deductible gift of $5,000 annually, you Don Rosenberg, ualcomm, Inc. will join our Opening Night Circle, where you will help Tim Scott, TEGA Therapeutics support new work and celebrate the most memorable Susan Tousi, Illumina Playhouse moments at invitation-only parties with desserts, drinks and dancing.

For details on 2018/2019 Opening Night dates and For more information about how you can join our most philanthropic donors, Innovation Night, please visit contact Samantha Wilson, Individual Giving Manager, at [email protected] or (858) 228-3089. LaJollaPlayhouse.org innovationnight MEDIA SPONSORS

All sponsors listed as of May 17, 2018

P22 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P23 All sponsors listed as of May 16, 2018. LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE STAFF Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director* Debby Buchholz, Managing Director*

ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION & OUTREACH Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda Associate General Manager Flo Low Director of Education & Outreach Steve McCormick* Director of New Play Development Gabriel Greene* Corporate/Legal Counsel Robert C. Wright, Wright & L’Estrange Associate Director of Education & Outreach Julia Cuppy Artistic Associate Teresa Sapien Theatre/Legal Counsel F. Richard Pappas, Esq. Education Programs Manager and Master Teaching Artist Artistic Programs Manager Jacole Kitchen Intern Reed Jones Bridget Cavaiola Director Emeritus Des McAnuff COMPANY MANAGEMENT Audio Describers Mernie Aste, Brian Berlau*, Joanne Brouk, Executive Assistant to Christopher Ashley Rick VanNoy* Company Manager Samantha De La Riva Tina Dyer, Shari Lyon*, Kay O’Neil*, Deborah Sanborn*, Commissioned Artists Todd Almond, Jeff Augustin, Associate Company Manager Erica Martin Sylvia Southerland*, Susan Weekes Daniel Beaty, Keith Bunin, Guillermo Calderón, Kara Lee Company Management Assistant Jacob Sinclair ASL Interpreters Lynn Ann Garrett, Anelia Glebocki, Corthron, Kristoffer Diaz, Kirsten Greenidge, Joe Iconis, Interns Benjamin Fleischer, Alycen Haynesworth, Suzanne Lightbourn*, Hansol Jung, Jon Kern, Mike Lew, Rehana Lew Mirza, Christina Soberino Billieanne McLellan, Geri Wu Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour, Gregory S. Moss, ASL Usher Esther Shen* Lisa Peterson, Theresa Rebeck, Laura Schellhardt, FINANCE Teaching Artists Bradley Behrmann, Julie Benitez, Dan Moses Schreier, Brian Selznick, , Director of Finance Christine Dolan Kirsten Giard, Aiden Ghosh, Cory Hammond, Mat Smart, Charlayne Woodard, Lauren Yee Controller Laura Killmer Catherine Hanna-Schrock, Becky Hurt, Jeffrey Ingman, Interns Kylie Owens, Adira Wingard Rosen, Krystal Yang Payroll George Kelly Courtney Kattengell, Ursula Meyer, Marie Osterman, Staff AccountantJanet Gray Mary Peterson*, Erika Phillips, Lydia Real, Tara Ricasa, PRODUCTION Sr. Production Accountant Jared Jackson Tomas Tamayo, Kendra Truett, Sydney Wilson, Production Manager Benjamin Seibert Accounts Payable Manager Sharon Ratelle* Sofia Zaragoza Assistant Production Manager Becca Duhaime Benefits Coordinator Kathy Silberman Playhouse Teen Council Laural Cantor, Justin Canning, Production Office ManagerRyan Heath Natalia Escobedo, Zoe Goldstein, Emre Gumus, Nick Lux, Interns Casey Deal, Kelsey Gagen, Hyunjung “Hazel” Park DEVELOPMENT Natasha Partnoy, Alice Shashkina, Izzy Shroff, Lexi Smith, SCENE SHOP Associate Director of Development Bonnie Broberg Natalia Trifunovic, Shelby Westbrook, Katie Wilkinson Interim Technical Director William Hartley Major Gifts OfficerJini Bernstein Archibald Interns Alice Banta, Richard Cajka, Asher Ehrenberg, Master Carpenter David Weiner* Individual Giving Manager Samantha Wilson Riley Fisher, Casey Johnson, Kayla King, Grace Lehman, Technical Designer Jonathan Gilmer Development OfficerTony Dixon Grace Lemmon, Noelle Mortensen, Kate Poms, Jared Pugh, Charge Artist Melissa Nalbach Development Coordinator Adeline McKinley Vanessa Rebeil, Tegan Rutkowski, Liana Steinberg Casper Carpenters Megan Birdsong, Jacob Bruce, Matt Clark, Interns Sarah Goodwin, Kristin Perkins James Fogarty, Scott Kinney, Stephanie Lee, Paul Mares, SPECIAL EVENTS OPERATIONS Laura McEntyre, Albert Rubidioux, Zane Whitmore Interim Manager, Special Events Samantha Watkins Director of Operations Ned Collins* Scenic Painters Edee Armand, Dwaine Best, Kyle Bowen, Special Projects Coordinator Melissa Sayviseth Operations Manager Jen McClenahan* Jenn Imbler Intern Jazmine Logan Network Systems Specialist Daryl “Scooter” Davis Shop Helper Doug Collind* Intern Laura Floyd PROPERTIES SHOP MARKETING FRONT OF HOUSE Prop Shop Supervisor Deb Hatch* Director of Communications Mary Cook* House Manager John Craft* Prop Shop Foreman Erick Toussaint Director of Public Relations Becky Biegelsen* Assistant House Managers Avery Henderson, Sara Lucchini, Props Artisans Zlatko Mitev, Jeff Rockey, Gabe Serbian Associate Director of Sales & Marketing Mia Fiorella Amy Marquez*, Chastyn Rauh, Mondis Vakili COSTUME SHOP Communications Manager Grace Madamba Audience Concierges Ashley Carbonell, Kyle Hunt, Costume Supervisor Jennifer Ables Senior Multimedia Designer Nancy Showers Cory Kurkierewicz, Michelle Rodriguez, Sultan Saeed, Resident Costume Design Assistant Desiree Hatfield-Buckley Multimedia Designer Jane Sanders Gemina Soriano Draper Alexander Zeek Marketing Database Analyst Dani Meister Janitorial Professional Maintenance Systems: Luis Bagshaw, First Hand Rebecca Fabares Marketing Specialist Sonia Diaz Nora Gomez, Francisco Lopez, Juan Mena, Maria Mena, Stitcher Stephanie Gift, Keira McGee Direct Sales Associate Andrew Fink Servin, Tony Villafuerte Craft Artisan Tess Mattraw Patron Services Sales Specialist Paul Preston* Craft Assistant Veronica Von Borstel Communications & Marketing Intern Joyce Mau THE SQUIRRELS STAFF ELECTRICS PATRON SERVICES Stage Carpenter James Fogarty Electrics Supervisor Jeff Brewer Associate Director – Patron Services Nikki Cooper Production Props Zlatko Mitev Master Electricians Allison Cluff, Kristyn Kennedy Patron Services Manager Travis Guss Master Electrician/Light Board Operator Allison Cluff Electricians Michael “Mongo” Moglia, Andrea Ryan, Senior Lead Patron Services Representative/Ticketing Specialist Audio Engineers Matthew Birchmeier, Aeroc Atone Miranda Stone, Ramon Wenn Pearl Hang* Wardrobe Supervisor Erick Sundquist SOUND/VIDEO Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales Specialist Hair / Make-up Supervisor Jeri Nicolas Sound/Video Supervisor Lane Elms Renee Shinske Resident Sound Engineer Matthew Birchmeier Lead Patron Services Representative/Group Sales Concierge Sound Technician Mike Cornforth Mike Brown Patron Services Coordinator Bill Washington Patron Services Representatives Devon Gonzales, Makayla Hoppe, Devin O’Reilly * Ten years or more with La Jolla Playhouse Sales Concierge William Guiney

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